life-on-screen

Life on Screen

This SystemVerilog demo effect uses an (old) framebuffer to render Conway's Game of Life.

This design has an associated Project F blog post: Life on Screen.
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Gosper glider gun generated by an Artix-7 FPGA.

Arty Build

To create a Vivado project for the Digilent Arty (original or A7-35T); clone the projf-explore git repo, then start Vivado and run the following in the Tcl console:

cd projf-explore/demos/life-on-screen/xc7/vivado
source ./create_project.tcl

You can then build top_life as you would for any Vivado project.